Publications
Thesis
| 2020 | Mohammadirad, Masoud Pronominal clitics in Western Iranian languages: Description, mapping, and typological implications . Sorbonne Nouvelle- Paris 3 University dissertation. |
Books
| in prep | Mohammadirad, Masoud. A grammar of Hawrami. |
| 2024 | Khan, Geoffrey and Masoud Mohammadirad. Language Contact in Sanandaj: A study of the Impact of Iranian on Neo-Aramaic. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. |
| 2022 | Khan, Geoffrey, Mohammadirad, Masoud, Molin, Dorota, and Noorlander Paul. Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, 2 vols. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. |
Journal Articles
| in review | Mohammadirad, Masoud. Differential A marking in Hewramî: A corpus study |
| in review | Mohammadirad, Masoud. The category of copula in Goranî dialects: grammaticalisation, variation, and change |
| in review | Mohammadirad, Masoud and Shuan Karim. Typology of verbal person/number syncretism in Western Iranian languages |
| in review | Shuan Karim and Masoud Mohammadirad. Demorphologization and Remorphologization: the development of a progressive prefix to a marker of negation in Hewramî |
| in review | Mohammadirad, Masoud and Shuan Karim. The development of imperfective and subjunctive marking in Hewramî |
| 2024 | Mohammadirad, Masoud. Gorani substrate within Kurdish: Evidence from Southern dialects of Central Kurdish. Journal of Historical Linguistics. doi.org/10.1075/jhl.23001.moh |
| 2024 | Mohammadirad, Masoud. External possession constructions in Laki. Linguistic Discovery. 18:1, pp. 1-25 |
| 2024 | Mohammadirad, Masoud and Ergin Opengin. Lenition of voiced stops across Kurdish. Folia Linguistica.https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2024-2049 |
| 2021 | Mohammadirad, Masoud and Pollet Samvelian. Procliticization as a residual of second positioning: Evidence from West Iranian languages. Folia Linguistica Historica. 55: s42-s2, pp.291-338. doi.org/10.1515/flin-2021-2024 |
| 2020 | Mohammadirad, Masoud. Predicative possession across Western Iranian languages. Folia Linguistica. 55: 3, pp.497-526. doi.org/10.1515/flin-2020-2038 |
| 2020 | Anonby, Erik, et al. Turkic languages in the Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI). Turkic languages. 24: 2, pp.290–308. doi.org/10.13173/TL/2020/2/290 |
| 2018 | Mohammadirad, Masoud and Mohammmad Rasekh-Mahand. Functions of the dative: An Iranian perspective Language Typology and Universals/STUF 71: 4. pp.539-575. doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2018-0021 |
| 2017 | Mohammadirad, Masoud and Mohammmad Rasekh-Mahand. Instrumental semantic map in Western Iranian languages Language Typology and Universals/STUF 70: 4. pp.579-610. doi-org/10.1515/stuf-2017-0025 |
Articles in Edited Volumes
| 2024 | Khan, Geoffrey, Masoud Mohammadirad. Gorani influence on NENA. In Shuan Karim, Salumeh Gholami, eds. Gorani in its historical and linguistic context. pp. 171-198. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. |
| in press | Masoud Mohammadirad. Zagros region: The Kurdish-Gorani continuum. In Geoffrey Haig, Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand, Donald Stilo, Laurentia Schreiber, Nils Schiborr, eds. Post-predicate elements in the Western Asian Transition Zone: a corpus-based approach to areal typology. Berlin: Language Science Press. |
| in press | Masoud Mohammadirad. Bound argument ordering across Central Kurdish and the Gorani substrate. In Jaffer Sheyholislami, Geoffrey Haig, Haidar Khezri, Salih Akin & Ergin Öpengin, eds. Oxford handbook of Kurdish Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| in press | Mohammadirad, Masoud and Gholamhossein Karimi Doostan. Southern Kurdish. In Jaffer Sheyholislami, Geoffrey Haig, Haidar Khezri, Salih Akin & Ergin Öpengin, eds. Oxford handbook of Kurdish Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| 2022 | Öpengin, Ergin and Masoud Mohammadirad. Formal and functional variation in pronominal clitics across Kurdish: documentation and explanations. In Yaron Matras, Ergin Öpengin & Geoffrey Haig, eds. Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish. pp 181-237. London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78837-7_5 |
| 2022 | Noorlander, Paul and Masoud Mohammadirad. Narrative Style and Discourse in Kurdish and Neo-Aramaic Oral Literature. Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore of Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts. pp 85-155. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0306.03 |
| 2019 | Anonby, Erik, Masoud Mohammadirad, and Jaffer Sheyholislami. Kordestan Province in the Atlas of the Languages of Iran: Research process, language distribution, and language classification. In Songül Gündoğdu, Ergin Öpengin, Geoffrey Haig & Erik Anonby, eds. Current issues in Kurdish linguistics. pp 9-38. Bamberg: Bamberg University Press. 10.20378/irb-56757 |
Archival Entries
| 2022a | Masoud Mohammadirad. Gorani (Gawraǰū). In Haig, Geoffrey & Stilo, Donald & Doğan, Mahîr C. & Schiborr, Nils N. (eds.), WOWA — Word Order in Western Asia: A spoken-language-based corpus for investigating areal effects in word order variation. Bamberg: Bamberg University Press. https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/resources/wowa/ |
| 2022b | Masoud Mohammadirad. Kurdish (Central, Sanandaj). In Haig, Geoffrey & Stilo, Donald & Doğan, Mahîr C. & Schiborr, Nils N. (eds.), WOWA — Word Order in Western Asia: A spoken-language-based corpus for investigating areal effects in word order variation. Bamberg: Bamberg University Press. https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/resources/wowa/ |
| 2022c | Masoud Mohammadirad. Kurdish (Southern, Bijar). In Haig, Geoffrey & Stilo, Donald & Doğan, Mahîr C. & Schiborr, Nils N. (eds.), WOWA — Word Order in Western Asia: A spoken-language-based corpus for investigating areal effects in word order variation. Bamberg: Bamberg University Press. https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/resources/wowa/ |
| 2022 | Mohammadirad, Masoud, Erik Anonby et al. Language distribution in Kordestan Province, Iran. In Erik Anonby, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, et al., Atlas of the languages of Iran (ALI). Ottawa: GCRC (Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre), Carleton University. http://iranatlas.net/index.html?module=module.language-distribution.kordestan |
| 2021 | Haig, Geoffrey and Masoud Mohammadirad. Kurdish: introduction and selected issues. In Bulut, Christiane, Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos, Geoffrey Haig, Geoffrey Khan, Pollet Samvelian, Stavros Skopeteas, Nina Sumbatova (eds.) (2020), Glottothèque: Languages of the Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia online (electronic resource). Bamberg/Cambridge/Göttingen/Moskow/Nicosia/Paris: LACIM network. https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/lacim/lng-kur.html |
| 2021 | Öpengin, Ergin and Masoud Mohammadirad. Clitic/affix interactions in Central Kurdish. In Bulut, Christiane, Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos, Geoffrey Haig, Geoffrey Khan, Pollet Samvelian, Stavros Skopeteas, Nina Sumbatova (eds.) (2020), Glottothèque: Languages of the Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia online (electronic resource). Bamberg/Cambridge/Göttingen/Moskow/Nicosia/Paris: LACIM network. https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/lacim/lng-kur.html |